BuurstTM SoftNAS® on Microsoft Azure
With SoftNAS on Azure you get enterprise NAS services, with NVMe, SSD,and HDD block storage performance
Cost
Use less expensive block storage for both Windows and Linux clients.
Capacity
Capabilities such as storage tiering, data deduplication, and data compression can save as much as 80% on your storage expenses.
Performance
Achieve performance through SoftNAS dedicated storage, not by adding more shared storage.
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Deploying SoftNAS on Azure
View our guides and video tutorials to get your business seamlessly up and running with SoftNAS on Azure.
SoftNAS on Azure Installation Guide
Read guidance on how to set up a POC and configure your environment
SoftNAS on Azure Tutorial Videos
Watch step-by-step videos from prerequisites and planning to configuring your SoftNAS instance on Azure
Why are organizations using SoftNAS on Azure?
With SoftNAS on Azure, you’re not paying for storage capacity. SofNAS provides the resources needed to get your new environment configured on Azure. SoftNAS enables you to apply on the configuration variables you need to get the maximum performance and control for petabytes of data on Azure. An intuitive HTML5-based admin GUI with dashboards help monitor and manage disk space, shares, and other granular controls, with an administrator applet to configure monitoring alert thresholds, login session timeout, and logging levels.
“SoftNAS Cloud is a flexible application with a light footprint, which offers a CIFS and a hot spare feature rarely found with other vendors. We have been pleased with the competitive price.”
– Reza Kertadjaja, Chief Operating Officer – IndonesianCloud
Why customers are choosing SoftNAS with Azure-based storage
With SoftNAS on Azure, you have control over your data. You can reduce the cost of your storage to keep your controller happy. You determine the performance to give users and applications the best cloud experience possible. You decide the availability to meet your SLA’s. You control the security from Admins, applications, users, to maintain a high level of compliance. Buurst is here to ensure you get the most out of your investment in Azure.
Choose Azure with SoftNAS when:
- You want to maintain control of your data
- Reduce the cost of cloud storage by:
- Using low-cost/high-performance block storage
- Enable deduplication, compression and tiering
- Increase performance for your cloud applications with faster storage
- Need 99.999% guaranteed uptime SLA
- Support Windows and Linux for the same storage pools
Buurst SoftNAS
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SoftNAS Azure Pricing
200
$0.19/hour
Disaster recovery storage
Azure Specs
vCPU: Up to 2
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on D2S_v3 instance:
- vCPU: 2
- IOPs: 3,200
- Throughput: 48 MBps
400
$1.00/hour
Cloud migration
Azure Specs
vCPU: Up to 4
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on D4S_v3 instance:
- vCPU: 4
- IOPs: 6,400
- Throughput: 96 MBps
800
$2.50/hour
SaaS applications
Azure Specs
vCPU: Up to 8
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on D8s_v3 instance:
- vCPU: 8
- IOPs: 12,800
- Throughput: 192 MBps
1600
$6.50/hour
SQL/NoSQL databases
Azure Specs
vCPU: Up to 20
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on D165_v3 instance:
- vCPU: 20
- IOPs: 25,600
- Throughput: 384 MBps
3200
$10.00/hour
Legacy applications, virtual desktops
Azure Specs
vCPU: Up to 48
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on D48s_v3 instance:
- vCPU: 48
- IOPs: 76,800
- Throughput: 1,152 MBps
6400
$15.00/hour
HPC, AI/ML
Azure Specs
vCPU: >48
Storage: No additional charge
Example specs based on E64S_v3 instance:
- >48 vCPU
- IOPs: 80,000
- Throughput: 1,200 MBps